Hollywood actors Samuel Jackson and John David Washington are all set to star in the film adaptation of August Wilson`s Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play `The Piano Lesson`.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a US-based media house, set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, `The Piano Lesson` follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor and polished with the tears and blood of their late mother.